Mother's Love

One calm,bright,sweet,sunshine
day,an angel stole out a heaven and came down to this old world,and roamed field
and forest,city and hamlet.Just as the sun went down he spread his wings and
said:"Now my visit is out,and I must go back to the world of light.But
before I go,I must gather some mementos of my visit here."
He looked
into a beautiful flower garden and said,"How lovely and fragrant these flowers
are".He plucked the rarest roses and made a bouquet and said,"I see nothing more
beautiful and fragrant than these;I will take them with me."
But he looked a
little further and saw a bright-eyed,rosy-cheeked baby,smiling into its mother's
face.And he said,"Oh,that baby's smile is prettier than this bouquet;I will take
that too."
Then he looked just beyond the cradle and there was a mother's
love pouring out like the gush of a river toward the cradle and the baby.And he
said,"Oh,that mother's love is the prettiest thing I have seen on earth;I will
carry that,too."

With the three treasures he winged his way to the
pearly gates,and lit just on the outside and said,"Before I go in,I will examine
my mementos."And he looked at the flowers and they had withered.He looked at the
baby's smile and it had faded.He looked at the mother's love and there it was,in
all it's pristine beauty.
He threw aside the withered flowers and faded
smile,and wing his way through the gates and led all the hosts of heaven
together and said,
"Here is the only thing I found on earth that would keep
its beauty all the way to heaven-It is a mother's
love."

Today's Quote:

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are. ~William Wallace~